The Textbook, Hayao Kawai Special: Exploring the Structure of Kokoro by Prof. Kawai Was Published in the July Edition of NHK’s Hyappun De Meicho (“100 minutes on a famous book”) Series

The Series Hyappun De Meicho (100 mintuets on a famous book) on NHK’s E-TV host guest speakers to discuss famous books from various genres.
In the July’s broadcast, Prof. Toshio Kawai will discuss “Hayao Kawai Special: Exploring the Structure of Kokoro”.
He will trace the thinking of Hayao Kawai by discussing his writings “Introduction to Jungian Psychology”, “Folktales and Japanese Kokoro”, “Mythology and Japanese Kokoro”, and “Jungian Psychology and Buddhism”.
The textbook is a written discussion of topics presented in the TV broadcast. The themes of the four books are as follows: “Being present with the problems of Kokoro”, “The origin and image of humans”, “Folktales and the deep layers of mythology”, and “What is “I “?”.
(Commentary by Hisae Konakawa, Research Fellow)

2018/06/28